Hair-cutting register.



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HAIR CUTTING REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED DEO.2 1,1906.

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HUGH O. KELLEY, OF SON ORA, TEXAS.

HAlR-CUTTING REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed December 21, 1906. Serial No. 348,944.

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH C. KELLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sonora, in the county of Sutton and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Hair- Cutting Register, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a registering device designed for use on'barbers chairs for facilitating the keeping of indicating the number of hair-cuts given by the barbers at their respective chairs, so as to facilitate the checking of the work of the barbers with re spect to the cash amounts taken in by the establishment for given periods of time.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a registering device of that type which depends for its operation on the removal and insertion of the head-rest of the barbers chair, it being understood that the head-rest is taken off .during hair-cutting, since it is in the way of the barber.

A further object of the invention is to provide a registering attachment which is of comparatively simple and inexpensive con struction, thoroughly reliable and efficient in use, and adapted to be arranged in such a way as to be proof against improper manipulation by the barber or barbers.

With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully described hereinafter, and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one of the embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a rear view of the upper portion of a barbers chair, showing the registering device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view drawn on an enlarged scale and showing certain of the parts removed and others in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the back of the chair.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the back of a barbers chair equipped with the usual head-rest 2, supported on the upper end of the post 3, that is movable in the guideway 41, constructed in the back 1. These parts may be of any approved construction, since the registering mechanism is in the nature of an attachment and de signed to be used in connection with ordinary chairs.

In one of the members 5 of the guide 4 is arranged a transverse groove 6 for the push rod 7 of the registering mechanism, and on the said member and located in the guide- Way 4 is a flat metal spring 8, that is anchored at its upper end to the member 5, through which the push-rod extends, and its lower free end projects over the inner end of the groove 6 for the push-rod to bear thereon. This spring is normally under a tension which causes the free end thereof to fly laterally to the dotted-line position shown in Fig. 2 when the head-rest is removed. Upon replacing the head-rest the post 3 thereof moves along the spring and forces the same laterally against the member 5, to which it is attached, thereby actuating the push-rod.

The registering device, which is designated generally by 9, is mounted on the support 10, which may be conveniently an extension of the plate 10 usually employed in connection with the members 5 to form the guide for the post 3 of the head-rest. By providing a plate of this construction the registering device can be used as an attachment for chairs already in use, since the old plate can be removed and a new one with the registering device thereon substituted, it being necessary merely to cut the groove 6 in the wooden member 5 for the push-rod 7 and to secure the leaf-spring S in place.

Mounted on the frame 11 is a shaft 12, carrying the toothed wheel 13, which is actuated step by step by the pawls 1.4 and 15. The push-rod is provided with a spring 15, which operates to move the same outwardly when the head-rest is removed, so that the pawl 14 can engage the succeeding tooth when the head-rest is replaced, and thus move the hand 16 one step forward. The hand 16 is carried by the shaft 12, having the ratchetwheel 13, and it is movable over the dial 17, that is exposed to the back side of the chairback 1. The pawl 14 may be formed on the push-rod, or, as shown, it is provided with a head 18, on which one end of the push-rod bears. The awl is loosely mounted in the guide 19, and the spring 20 serves to yieldingly hold the pawl in cooperative relation to the teeth and to draw the pawl into the dotted-line position in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains.

What is claimed is 1. The combination of a barbers chair comprising a back, a guide thereon, a headrest, and a post for the rest engaging in the guide, with a registering device comprising a leaf-spring supported in the guide to be actuated by the post, an indicating means, and a member between the means and spring for actuating the former.

2. The combination of a barbers chair having a head-rest guide, a head-rest provided with a post movable in the guide, and a plate secured to the guide, with a registering device comprising a push-rod movable through one oi the walls ol the guide, a spring arranged in the guide to engage the push-rod and disposed to be actuated by the post of the head-rest, a hand and dial indicating means supported on the plate, and a step-bystep mechanism actuated by the push-rod.

3. A registering device for a barbers chair having a removable head-rest, a guide for the same, comprising a supporting-frame, a ratchet-Wheel mounted thereon, an indicating-hand movable with the wheel, a pushrod, a pawl at one end thereof for actuating the wheel, a holdback pawl, a leaf-spring adapted to be mounted on the chair so as to be actuated by the removal and insertion. of the head-rest thereon, and a spring cooperating with the first-mentioned spring to mo vc the push-rod in opposite directions.

In testimony that I claim the 'l'oregoing as my own 1 have hereto al'lixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HUGH C. KELLEY.

Witnesses E. HUME TALBERT, E. E. DOYLE. 

